Patrick: A Young Traveller Lost tells a tragic tale, it's semi-finals time on MasterChef: The Professionals, Murdered: The Baby on the Beach revisits the Kerry babies case, while there's new drama with The Doll Factory and The Couple Next Door . . .
Pick of the Day
Patrick: A Young Traveller Lost, 9.35pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
This could be a tough watch.
It tells the story of 12-year-old Patrick McDonagh's suicide, following his parents as they come to terms with their loss. It’s unimaginable, really, and something no parent should endure.
Bernie Power, a Traveller Outreach worker, offers an account of the turmoil within the Traveller community, such as the struggle with poor mental health and the positive impact of reaching out for help.
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10 Things to Know About, 8.30pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
This week’s episode explores the effect that environments can have on peoples' health.
Presenter Jonathan McCrea (above) focuses on the solutions to tackle waterborne diseases in drinking water, as well as how soil nutrients is impacting the food chain and the science behind hay fever drug optimisation.
Love & Death, 9.00pm, RTÉ2
My personal jury’s still out on this fact-based drama, starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jess Plemons as a cheating couple in 1970s’ Texas.
The opening episode was great, but last week’s follow-up was a bit of a slumber-fest.
This week, a sense of normality returns after Candy is forced to take stock of her marriage, but Pat soon makes a discovery that leads him to seek answers from Sherry.
Atonement, 9.30pm, TG4
Joe Wright's engrossing romantic period drama, based on Ian McEwan's novel, starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, a very young Saoirse Ronan and Romola Garai.
In 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis discovers the burgeoning relationship between her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, a servant's son whom she has a crush on herself.
The teenager becomes increasingly jealous of the pair and spitefully accuses him of a crime he did not commit, unaware her actions will have tragic repercussions.
MasterChef: The Professionals, 8.00pm, BBC One
Eight chefs have made it through to the semi-finals as this year’s competition heads towards its final servings.
For their first challenge, they must create a dish showcasing the flavours of salt and pepper.
Four of the chefs will automatically win a place in the next stage, while the others face an Invention Test where they must produce a plant-based meal to secure one of the last two places in the next round.
New or Returning Shows
Murdered: The Baby on the Beach, 10.15pm, Virgin Media One
How the discovery of a five-day-old boy's body on a lonely Co Kerry beach in April 1984 set in train a chain of events that would bring shame on the-then conservatively minded Irish state and the Gardai.
An innocent woman, Joanna Hayes (above) was accused of murdering her child, leading to a tribunal now recognised as a witch hunt
The Couple Next Door, 9.00pm, Channel 4
Brand-new, six-part drama series that promises to be an addictive, emotional roller coaster that looks at how we never know what goes on behind closed doors.
When Evie (Eleanor Tomlinson) and Pete (Alfred Enoch) move into an upscale neighbourhood, they find themselves in a world of curtain twitching and status anxiety.
But soon find friendship in the shape of the couple next door, alpha traffic cop Danny (Sam Heughan) and his wife, glamorous yoga instructor Becka (Jessica De Gouw).
As time goes on, these two couples get increasingly close to each other and one fateful night, become sexually entangled in a way that will change their lives forever.
Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator, 9.00pm, BBC Two
He was a bit of a geezer, that Julius Caesar.
The rise to power of the Roman emperor, telling the dramatic story of how nearly five centuries of democracy was overthrown in just 16 years, beginning as he sought to become consul, the highest political position in Rome.
To do so, he entered into dangerous alliances and bent the rules of the republic, courting the popular vote, exploiting division and using bribery and intimidation to get his own way.
New to Stream
The Doll Factory, Paramount+
This period thriller set in Victorian London is based on the novel of the same name by Elizabeth Macneal and adapted by Charley Miles.
The cast features Esmé Creed-Miles, alongside Éanna Hardwicke, Mirren Mack, and George Webster and Derry Girls star Saoirse-Monica Jackson.
Creed-Miles plays Iris, a young woman who dreams of being an artist. Mack is her sister Rose and Webster as an aspiring painter, while Hardwicke plays Silas, a strange taxidermist who becomes dangerously obsessed with Iris.
Principal photography was shot in and around Dublin, including Trinity College's Museum Building and the Physics Lecture Theatre.
The series premieres today, with all remaining episodes released on 1 December.
Five Nights at Freddy’s, Sky Store
Here’s some horror starring Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Kat Conner Sterling, Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson and Matthew Lillard.
A troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria.
While spending his first night on the job, he realises the late shift at Freddy's won't be so easy to make it through.
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